This is just capitalism applied to magical girls.

Anyway, one thing that seriously annoyed me is the ammo-control app on the tablet. Since ammo-reloading and the likes are controlled via software, why don’t they just do it remotely? If - for some reason - it must be near the magical girl at all times, why not put it on a smart watch or use voice recognition or something for the magical girl to reload ammo more easily? Better yet, how about automatically reloading upon detecting a low ammo count?

It just doesn’t make sense. The only explanation I can think of (that I will be satisfied with) is that the world of Magilumiere is affected by enshittification as well, and whatever I just suggested requires them to pay more.

I have mixed feelings on this one. On the one hand, I like our leads and they have great chemistry, and that can make up for a lot of flaws. On the other hand, the action scenes felt a bit overly ambitious (the spinning shots especially felt poorly done), there never seemed to be any sense of urgency in them, and the tech elements seemed sort of overpowering and distracting when they have to shout their magic settings out loud in battle. On top of that, I’m also a little concerned that The Boss’s role in the story is going to largely be the butt of some very transphobic jokes (like, why would Kana be so fearful in that stinger if not “man in dress?? scary!!”). This one is another for the “maybe” pile. I’ll give it another episode to see how it settles in. 3/5.